Has anyone successfully integrated using Skype with ARC to create an automated Skype control? If so, how was it done, was it an easy process, and what functionality does it give you?
If it is possible, could this be a feature that can be added to ARC in a future update? Having a dedicated Skype control to control things like answering and ending a call, going full screen, switching cameras, enabling and disabling cameras, all using voice control, or setting up an auto answer feature say after two ring.
This would also give the ability to use a camera with ARC that would have a built in microphone (which is something I would love to see on a future EZ-Robot camera). This would be a great feature for remote robot navigation (with onboard PC), telepresence calling, and as part of a robot security system where a robot could call you on another Skype device and stream a live video feed. Of course some of this can be done already using a v4 camera or webcam, but the addition of using a microphone with video feed would be a great tool.
Is this something that DJ and the EZ-Robot team would consider adding to EZ-Builder, and would others be interested in having such a control?
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Alan
It's really sad but the sdk for Skype used to be good. It now is pretty much junk.
Well that sucks. I thought the boys and girls at Skype would have been on top of things in that regard. I guess that's why the isn't to mention about it when I did a quick forum search. I'll check out VSee to see what it's all about, but I would need it to be iOS compatable as well. But it will be useful for PC to tablet communication.
VSee was great advice (I never expected anything less). Got it installed on my laptop and tablet now. I did a simple exec() command in a script on my laptop and it launched VSee perfectly. I set the tablet to automatically except calls, set the screen size to a large as I needed it, and voilà, it worked a charm. And there is also a free iOS app as well.
Thanks for the advice.
Now if I could only get it to automatically call someone. Do you know of a way of doing that?
Another example would be tomise ARCs speech recognition control to voice dial out and call someone from the robots PC. A lazy way for some, but could have some uses for someone who is not very phisiclly mobile or tech savvy, (or both in my mothers case). I'm sure that there are other applications where this could be useful that I haven't thought of.
I had a quick look to see where contacts are stored or any .exe pathways for autodialling, but couldn't find anything useful.